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Item In-plane magnetic anisotropy of bcc Co on GaAs 001(American Physical Society, 1998-05-15) Wu, Y.Z.; Ding, H.F.; Jing, C.; Wu, D.; Liu, G.L.; Gordon, Vernita D.; Dong, G.S.; Jin, X.F.Epitaxial growth of Co on GaAs(001) and its in-plane magnetic anisotropy are studied using reflection high-energy electron diffraction, a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, and the magneto-optical Kerr effect. In the initial and final stages of growth, Co exists in single-crystalline body-centered-cubic (bcc) and hexagonal-closed-packed (hcp) phases, respectively, while in the middle stage the coexistence of the bcc and hcp structures is observed. For the bcc Co thin films on GaAs(001), a fourfold in-plane magnetic anisotropy with easy axes along the <100> directions is realized and discussed.